Northwest Region Awards
EN Magazine North West Entrepreneur Awards 2010 – EN Magazine’s North West Entrepreneur of the Year Awards scheme, now in its ninth year, exists to honour the achievements of the region’s most tenacious and successful entrepreneurs – and to provide encouragement and a standard against which they can measure themselves to those who Read more…
Northwest Ambassador Chris Arnold has launched a worldwide competition which will see participants compete and develop skills in enterprise and social responsibility. The winners will receive a once in a lifetime prize to travel the world for a year meeting entrepreneurs and world leaders.
‘Your Big Year’ is an official ‘Global Entrepreneurship Week’ event that provides Read more…
As I mentioned in my blog post last week we can’t open a newspaper or switch on the TV without stumbling across a story of an entrepreneur these days. As if to prove my point two new series start on the BBC this week. Tonight sees the doyenne of candles and moisturisers, Jo Malone, helping Read more…
The Civic Offices at Cannock Chase was the venue for the latest West Midlands Enterprising Places Network. It followed the theme of the first EPN during December – Think Enterprise – to look at the problems young people face and how to address them best, this time looking at the young people in the Cannock Chase Read more…
‘IF WE CAN, YOU CAN’ Challenge launches for 2010
Today marks the launch of the third ‘If we can, you can’ Challenge, a region-wide competition set to re-ignite and celebrate North East England’s entrepreneurial spirit.
The Challenge calls upon any individual who is thinking of starting a business, running their own business or looking to grow their Read more…
Well according to Ganesh Selvarajah, an adviser at the government-backed business support service Business Link, the holy grail for small retailers is knowing how to target new customers. He directly answers a question about this on the BBC website and he makes some interesting suggestions to one small business owner about the demographics of the Read more…
So, we’re back at work: it’s January, it’s cold, and Christmas has become a dim and distant memory.
The new year and return to work often serves as the occasion for some serious navel-gazing and introspection, which leads to the annual parade of resolutions, targets, and reinventions.
If you are one of the many pondering the year Read more…
It is a common misconception that you need to have a great, unique idea before you start your business journey. In actual fact, you don’t.
Allow me to use the analogy of a doctor to illustrate. A doctor will go to medical school for perhaps 6 years or more. The first years of study will entail learning all about medicine, the Read more…
Our friends at NCGE Flyingstart are running an awesome event during GEW09.
With a line up confirmed to include David Lammy, James Caan, Caroline Marsh, Imran Hakim and hosted by MYM Ambassador, Dan Sodergren, this looks to be a real gem during an already action packed week.
So whether it’s a Dragon’s Den or a Secret Millionaire Read more…
By simply applying online and saying how free office space could help grow your business you could be in with a chance of winning
We’ve all heard plenty of gloom and doom stories about the recession but here at Enterprise UK, it won’t surprise you that we’re quite upbeat about it all. It’s not just because we’re all ridiculously happy here at Enterprise UK Towers – it’s because we truly believe that the recession can be a time of Read more…
I have started a part time internship at Enterprise UK. Apart from gaining invaluable experience, it has set me thinking…
If you’re anything like me you would have left university being very scared of starting your career. ‘So what are you going to do with your life!?’ asked by all family members, whilst ‘There are NO Read more…
Last night I spoke to one of my friends, a recent graduate, who has been unemployed for a number of months – a situation I remember well after leaving University, unlike my contemporaries, without a job in the city lined up. We chatted about the sense of worthlessness, the fear and panic that at not Read more…
Last night Make Your Mark Yorkshire and Humber attended a first birthday in business party hosted by Make Your Mark Ambassador Claire Cox of Bailey Hunter.
Jane Walton said: “We have worked alongside Claire since the launch of her business in 2008 and are so pleased to see that the business has grown from strength to Read more…
Google has an answer for everything. Its Google trends search allows you to see a graph of how many people have search for something over the past six years. A search for ‘Make Your Mark’ shows quite familiar and daunting spikes in searches during mid-November.
Anyway, below is the graph of searches in the UK for Read more…
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